Fernando Alva-Manchego

Fernando Alva-Manchego

Researcher in Natural Language Processing

Cardiff University

My research interests include text simplification, readability assessment, multilingual NLP, Welsh language technology, and NLP for education and social care.

FreeTxt: Analyse and Visualise Multilingual Qualitative Survey Data for Cultural Heritage Sites

We present FreeTxt, a free web-based tool for multilingual qualitative survey analysis integrating corpus linguistics and NLP methods for English and Welsh, validated with cultural …

nouran-khallaf

• Sep 1, 2025 • 1 min read

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Text Simplification

Adapting Sentence-level Automatic Metrics for Document-level Simplification Evaluation

NAACL 2025

mounica-maddela

• Apr 29, 2025 • 1 min read

Large Language Models

If ChatGPT can do it, where is my creativity? Generative AI boosts performance but diminishes experience in creative writing

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans

peidong-mei

• Mar 19, 2025 • 1 min read

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Text Simplification

Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification

COLING 2025

abdullah-barayan

• Jan 19, 2025 • 1 min read

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Text Simplification

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline

BEA 2024

matthew-shardlow

• Jun 20, 2024 • 1 min read

An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework

LREC-COLING 2024

matthew-shardlow

• May 20, 2024 • 1 min read

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Text Simplification

BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification

EMNLP 2023

tannon-kew

• Dec 6, 2023 • 1 min read

Simplifying Administrative Texts for Italian L2 Readers with Controllable Transformers Models: A Data-driven Approach

CLiC-it 2023

martina-miliani

• Nov 30, 2023 • 1 min read

Comparing Generic and Expert Models for Genre-Specific Text Simplification

TSAR @ RANLP 2023

zihao-li

• Sep 7, 2023 • 1 min read

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Question-Answer Generation

An Empirical Comparison of LM-based Question and Answer Generation Methods

Findings of ACL 2023

asahi-ushio

• Jul 12, 2023 • 1 min read